Roads Commission Lets Contracts For Highway Work
Baltimore Md March 17 The State Roads Commission after testing the highway construction market by asking bids on small contracts launched a building program Five contracts were awarded with bids opened earlier and priced. They cover 2.5 miles from Bethel Church to Black Horse in Hartford County St Michaels link in the Eastern Shore Claiborne roads in Talbot County Dupont Boulevard connection east of Berlin Worcester County link in Denton Preston Road in Caroline County and the lateral road adjoining Salisbury Ocean City Road in Wicomico County.
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Baltmore
State Roads Commission
Bethel Church
Black Horse
Hartford County
St. Michaels
Claiborne Roads
Talbot County
Dupont Boulevard
Berlin
Worcester County
Denton
Preston
Caroline County
Salisbury
Ocean City
Wiecomico County
Water released into canal. Sunday opening planned
Announcement states water will be turned into the C. and QO Canal this Sunday with an early opening anticipated. Repairs near Four Jocks and other canal sections are complete and ready. it will take about a week to fill the waterway, after which boats will go into service.
Western lawmakers urge embargo on key imports
Washington march 17 an appeal to president harding to place an immediate embargo on imports of wool hides meats butter lemons cotton seed oil and cotton has been made by a group of western senators and representatives senator cameron republican arizona announced to night the situation facing the producers of these products has been laid before secretaries wallace hoover and fall
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Washington
Harding
Cameron
Arizona
Wallace
Hoover
Fall
Arrest man with $65 000 in bonds
New York March 17 police alleged $65 000 in securities tied to a $180 000 bank robbery were found on a man who gave the name Harry Bernstein. He was arrested in New York with a companion in a Wyomissing Pa bank theft probe.
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New York
Peoples Bank
Wyomfishing
Harry Bernstein
Idahoan on I C C Washington March 17 Hagenbarth named
Idahoan Frank Hagenbarth president of the National Wool Growers Association is expected to be appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Western Senators and Representatives urged President Harding to appoint a Western man and have agreed on Hagenbarth as the candidate.
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Washington
Frank Hagenbarth
Idaho
National Wool Growers’ Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harding
Congress
Hagenbarth
Lost ends of fingers at Hagerstown plant incident
Alva Jones of North Street, an employee at the Hagerstown Shoe and Legging Company, suffered the severing of several fingertip ends yesterday afternoon when his hand was caught between the rollers of a machine. The company physician treated him.
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Alva Jones
North Street
Hagerstown
Jury Acquits Clara Hamon in Ardmore Murder Trial
Ardmore Oklahoma March 18 Clara Hamon was found not guilty of the murder of Jake L Hamon. A young woman gasped and dropped forward as the verdict was announced her brother kissed her. Judge B C Loughridge delivered the verdict. Clara thanked the jurors and shook hands with them as they left.
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Ardmore
Okla
Clara Hamon
Jake L. Hamon
B. ¥. C. Loughridge
Clara
Church Choir Strike Hits Cumberland Easter Services
Cumberland Maryland March 17 The Emmanuel Episcopal Church rector Rev Am brose Henry Beagin faces a choir strike after organist and long time choirmaster Ingham Lord resigns over budget non inclusion. Tenor Harry B Jamison bass R Mason Hill and Thomas I Myers quit and others threaten to follow leaving the choir crippled on the eve of Easter. Lord had hosted popular monthly musicales at the church.
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Cumberland
Emmanuel Episcopal
Ambrose Henry Beagin
Ingham Lord
Lord
Harry B. Jamison
R. Mason Hill
Thomas I. Myers
Walter A. Yingling F
Rehearsal and Holy Week Schedule for Choral Society
The Choral Society met in the Municipal band rooms at Market house to rehearse for the May concert. There will be no meeting next week for Holy Week, but the following Thursday at 8 pm a rehearsal will be held and the committee anticipates good attendance. GARAGE BURNED AT Rocky Ridge Elsworth C Valentine Frederick house owned destroyed by fire threatening adjacent property. Two army trucks ambulance roadster motorcycle and accessories lost. Estimated damage about 10000 dollars with partial insurance.
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Rocky Ridge
Elsworth C. Valentine
Frederick
Plymouth Rock to be protected for future years
Plymouth Rock, the glacial boulder on the shore, will be safeguarded against water and frost. The preservation plan now aims to shield the stone under a monumental canopy and make the restored rock as durable as possible.
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Plymouth
Mass
Plymouth Rock
Navy Plans to Mass in Pacific Bases Map Shows Expansion
Time reports a joint Anglo American understanding shifting naval strength to the Pacific. The plan calls for expanding Pearl Harbor at Oahu as a Gibraltar of the Pacific, making Guam a submarine base, and enlarging coaling stations and bases in the Philippines Midway Wake Islands Samoa and West Coast areas.
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U. S
Pacific
U. S. Navy
Atlantic
Time
Uncle Sam
John Bull
Guam
Philippines
Midway
Wake Islands
Samoa
West
Farm loan bonds ready April 15
Washington March 17 The earliest date for new federal farm loan bonds to be ready is April 15 announced by Commissioner Lobdell of the Farm Labor Board. Congress extended the call period requiring new engraving plates. Bonds will be issued through federal loan banks farm loan associations and distributing houses with amount to be set by loan demand and U bond market conditions.
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Washington
Lobdell
Farm Labor Board
Congress
Assets to be sold in movie shop dissolution drive
Clifford L Wakeman as receiver for United States Photoplay Corporation offers to sell all assets on March 21 1921 at 11 00 AM at BE K Lincoln Studio Bergen Boulevard Grantwood New Jersey excluding money due on subscriptions stock capital bank deposits and a claimed debt against F F Stoll highest bidder wins with terms announced at sale. A New Jersey court suit is pending against the company and copies of the sale notice were sent to stockholders.
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United States Photoplay Corporation
Hagerstown
Clifford L. Wakeman
Corporation
Wakeman
BE. K. Lincoln Studio
Bergen Boulevard
Grantwood
N. J
Commercial National Bank
Washington
District of Columbia
F. F. Stoll
New Jersey
Voliva Claims Chicago Holds Missing Link Source
Zion City leader Wilbur Glenn Voliva ridicules Asian searches for the missing link and asserts a Chicago find is possible before sundown. He attacks evolution and Newtonian gravity, arguing the sun moves around a stationary earth and the Bible contains more astronomy than any textbook.
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International News
Zion City
Asia
Chicago
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Zion
Wilbur
Voliva
Isaac Newton
Kill Constable as a Reprisal in Galway
Dublin reports a reprisal shooting in County Galway after the Mount Joy execution of Thomas Whelan. Constable O Kane was killed and another constable wounded. Crown forces killed John McDonald who allegedly evaded arrest. Three bombs were hurled at a military lorry in Camden Street, with soldiers firing back injuring some civilians.
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Dublin
Thomas Whelan
Mount Joy
O'Kane
County Galway
Crown
John McDonald
Camden St
Immigration figures show net gain in February
Washington reports 80,000 immigrants arrived in February, down from 86,000 in January. Departures to abroad kept the net gain. the Bureau of Immigration released figures showing 86,000 leaving during both months, totaling a consistent outflow that affected the month’s totals.
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Washington
U. S
Bureau of Immigration Show
$100000 For Memorial Approved by Tennessee Legislature
Nashville March 17 legislators yesterday appropriated 100000 dollars for a memorial to soldiers to be erected at Washington. They said this was the first state move in the nation-wide memorial program.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Washington
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U.S Navy
Pachaic
New Mexico
Henry ‘B. Wilson
Oahu
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Ichina
Maryland Theater
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Om Fletchers
Rstown
Confirmation
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